Teachinghistory.org (National History Education Clearinghouse) offers resources to teachers in multiple ways. Three sections outline teaching materials, history content, and best practices in teaching history. There are links for elementary, middle, and high school teachers, with everything from complete lesson plans to general outlines of historical events and skills. You can also access research on the state of history education in the country, as well as a blog and the teachinghistory.org community.
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Explore natural selection by controlling the environment and causing mutations in bunnies.
- Subject:
- Genetics
- Life Science
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Provider Set:
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Author:
- Adams, Wendy
- Jonathan Olson
- Noah Podolefsky
- Olson, Jonathan
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Podolefsky, Noah
- Wendy Adams
- Date Added:
- 04/01/2009
This activity uses a cultural story to excite kinesthetic homework, nature journaling and daily adventure in a child's own back yard or kitchen flower pot.
- Subject:
- Environmental Science
- Life Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Simulation
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Pedagogy in Action
- Author:
- Nicholas Pawlowski
- Date Added:
- 02/10/2023
This activity is a classroom lesson on how a slinky relates to sound waves and how sound waves relate to the human ear.
- Subject:
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Simulation
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Pedagogy in Action
- Author:
- Kyle Johnson
- Date Added:
- 02/10/2023
Produce light by bombarding atoms with electrons. See how the characteristic spectra of different elements are produced, and configure your own element's energy states to produce light of different colors.
- Subject:
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Provider Set:
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Author:
- Carl Wieman
- Danielle Harlow
- Harlow, Danielle
- Kathy Perkins
- Lemaster, Ron
- McKagan, Sam
- Perkins, Kathy
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Ron LeMaster
- Sam McKagan
- Wieman, Carl
- Date Added:
- 09/13/2006
Engaging PowerPoint or Standalone Executable File Presentation and coordinating materials about Internet Safety for High School students. The lesson is done for you, all you have to do is download the presentation and materials and present it to your high school students.
- Subject:
- Business and Information Technology
- Career and Technical Education
- Character Education
- Education
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Primary Source
- Simulation
- Provider:
- National Center for Missing/Exploited Children
- Date Added:
- 04/29/2016
Stimulate a neuron and monitor what happens. Pause, rewind, and move forward in time in order to observe the ions as they move across the neuron membrane.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Life Science
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Provider Set:
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Author:
- Adams, Wendy
- Blanco, John
- John Blanco
- Katherine Perkins
- Noah Podolefsky
- Perkins, Katherine
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Podolefsky, Noah
- Wendy Adams
- Date Added:
- 10/01/2010
This is designed to have the students think critically about the immigration debate in the United States. This lesson allows the teacher to guide student driven discussion without coloring the debate with their personal opinion. This very difficult topic becomes easy to talk about with these students using this method.
- Subject:
- Civics and Government
- Geography
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Reading
- Simulation
- Provider:
- PBS
- Date Added:
- 11/10/2015
Molecular Workbench (MW) is powerful, award-winning software that provides visual, interactive computational experiments for teaching and learning science. These simulations are HTML5 and work well on non-java based platforms.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Life Science
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Simulation
- Author:
- MIT or Apache 2.0 licenses.
- This project is © Copyright 2017 by The Concord Consortium and is distributed under the Simplified BSD
- Date Added:
- 11/14/2018
Play with a 1D or 2D system of coupled mass-spring oscillators. Vary the number of masses, set the initial conditions, and watch the system evolve. See the spectrum of normal modes for arbitrary motion. See longitudinal or transverse modes in the 1D system.
- Subject:
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Provider Set:
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Author:
- Ariel Paul
- Jon Olson
- Michael Dubson
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Trish Loeblein
- Date Added:
- 05/14/2012
Start a chain reaction, or introduce non-radioactive isotopes to prevent one. Control energy production in a nuclear reactor! (Previously part of the Nuclear Physics simulation - now there are separate Alpha Decay and Nuclear Fission sims.)
- Subject:
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Provider Set:
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Author:
- Adams, Wendy
- Blanco, John
- Carl Wieman
- Danielle Harlow
- Harlow, Danielle
- John Blanco
- Kathy Perkins
- LeMaster, Ron
- McKagan, Sam
- National Science Foundation
- Noah Podolefsky
- Perkins, Kathy
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Podolefsky, Noah
- Ron LeMaster
- Sam McKagan
- Wendy Adams
- Wieman, Carl
- Date Added:
- 07/19/2011
Start a chain reaction, or introduce non-radioactive isotopes to prevent one. Control energy production in a nuclear reactor! (Previously part of the Nuclear Physics simulation - now there are separate Alpha Decay and Nuclear Fission sims.)
- Subject:
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Provider Set:
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Author:
- Adams, Wendy
- Blanco, John
- Harlow, Danielle
- LeMaster, Ron
- McKagan, Sam
- Perkins, Kathy
- Podolefsky, Noah
- Wieman, Carl
- Date Added:
- 07/02/2008
This activity is used to introduce or reinforce in students the importance of differentiating between observations and interpretations and quantitative and qualitative observations during classroom experimentation or demonstrations
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Physical Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Assessment
- Lesson Plan
- Simulation
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Pedagogy in Action
- Date Added:
- 02/10/2023
Students will use science skills of observing, describing and measuring in the context of Making Ice Cream. Students will understand the concept that physical properties can change.
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Simulation
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Pedagogy in Action
- Author:
- Patricia Phillips
- Date Added:
- 02/10/2023
This is a pottery video showing how to make an ocarina or clay whistle. This was made for you by Janis Wilson Hughes, owner of Evolution Stoneware Pottery.
- Subject:
- Art and Design
- Fine Arts
- Performing and Visual Arts
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- YouTube
- Date Added:
- 03/20/2018
This simulation allows students to explore the change in sea surface pH levels with increasing CO2 levels.
- Subject:
- Physical Science
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
- Provider Set:
- CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
- Author:
- B. Martin
- K. Tjostheim
- King's Center for Visualization in Science
- M. Price
- Date Added:
- 02/07/2023
See how the equation form of Ohm's law relates to a simple circuit. Adjust the voltage and resistance, and see the current change according to Ohm's law. The sizes of the symbols in the equation change to match the circuit diagram.
- Subject:
- Algebra
- Mathematics
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Interactive
- Simulation
- Provider:
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Provider Set:
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- Author:
- Dubson, Michael
- Gratny, Mindy
- Date Added:
- 06/02/2008
Music and reading of the poem "once more into the fray"
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- YouTube
- Date Added:
- 03/20/2018
Today, we don't use gold to represent money. To find out some of the reasons why, let's learn about money's function as a store of value, and how this function is threatened when prices change significantly.
- Subject:
- Business and Information Technology
- Career and Technical Education
- Material Type:
- Interactive
- Lesson Plan
- Reading
- Reference Material
- Simulation
- Provider:
- council for economic education
- Date Added:
- 05/17/2016
Online Statistics: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study is an introductory-level statistics book. The material is presented both as a standard textbook and as a multimedia presentation. The book features interactive demonstrations and simulations, case studies, and an analysis lab.
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Material Type:
- Case Study
- Full Course
- Simulation
- Textbook
- Provider:
- Rice University
- Author:
- David Lane
- Date Added:
- 11/04/2013